Sale: 513 / Post War / Contemporary Art II, Dec. 11. 2020 in Munich Lot 123

 

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Sigmar Polke
Untitled, 1988.
Gelatin silver print
Estimate:
€ 9,000 / $ 9,630
Sold:
€ 10,625 / $ 11,368

(incl. surcharge)
Untitled. 1988.
Gelatin silver print.
Signed and dated in lower left. On glossy photo paper. 50.7 x 60.7 cm (19.9 x 23.8 in).

• Dissolving the boundaries of photography.
• Liberation of photography from its traditional form.
- Polke makes photos of bizarre situations and objects.
• Ennobling the banal to a motif worth depicting.
• Polke's photographs are "improperly" shot, deliberately blurred and overexposed, and thus unique experiments
.

PROVENANCE: Berlin Projects, Berlin.
Private collection Great Britain (acquired from aforementioned in 2001).




123
Sigmar Polke
Untitled, 1988.
Gelatin silver print
Estimate:
€ 9,000 / $ 9,630
Sold:
€ 10,625 / $ 11,368

(incl. surcharge)